The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman c1965

£18.00

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Title: The Story of Little Black Sambo
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Chatto & Winduc
Publication Date: c1965
Format: Hardback

Condition: Covers are rubbed to edges and spine missing. The dust jacket is tatty to edges and has been price clipped. Pages are fairly clean with some light finger marks.

Book measures: 14cm x 10.5cm with 61 pages

1 in stock

Description

The Story of Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman (first published 1899), is a children’s tale about a South Indian boy outwitting hungry tigers by giving them his new, colorful clothes until they melt into butter, which his mother uses for pancakes, but the book’s legacy is complicated by racist caricatures and language that led to its removal from many shelves,

Additional information

Weight 0.500 kg